David G. Cox A new organization is being formed to help small farmers and growers throughout the country make their products directly available to the private consumer. Called the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF), the organization will be launched on July 4th in order to “protect the...
Alternet Lisa M. Hamilton From the news these days you’d think farmers have never had a better friend than ethanol. Headlines holler that corn prices are soaring and that at this moment farmers are planting more acres of corn than they have in the last 50 years. Reporters writing...
Friends of the Earth has criticised the decision by EU Ministers to allow organic food to be contaminated with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). EU Agriculture Ministers, including the UK, have adopted a new law which allows organic food containing up to 0.9 percent of GM content to be classed...
New York Times By Andrew Martin The latest battle over what can be called organic involves beer and gelatin, food colorings and casings for sausage. The Department of Agriculture, the final arbiter of all things organic, is poised to approve a list of nonorganic ingredients that can be used...
Industry Coalition Demanding Organic Integrity Prevails PIXLEY, CA: After a seven-year-long battle between organic farmers and consumers and the USDA, the first of a handful of industrial-scale dairies, producing what they claimed was organic milk, has been shut down by regulatory authorities. It was announced today by an organic...
FoodConsumer.org By Ben Wasserman The US government said Tuesday it will continue fighting against private testing of cattle for mad cow disease, the Associated Press reports. A federal judge in late March ruled that the United States Department of Agriculture has no authority to suppress private testing of cattle...
Reuters By Ben Blanchard and Niu Shuping BEIJING (Reuters) – Fish could give you cancer, snails meningitis and baby milk may kill your children — barely a day goes by without some new food horror story in China. This is helping drive sales in another, though still tiny, food...
By Nao Nakanishi HONG KONG (Reuters) – Beijing should avoid the U.S. model of letting only a few companies dominate its entire food supply chain, a specialist said as Beijing steps up efforts to improve China’s food safety record. While focusing on the rapid growth of industrial farming, Beijing...
FoodProcessing.com By Dave Fusaro, Editor in Chief “We’re rolling back prices — on food safety.” Two serious food contamination incidents have bowed the food industry over the past couple of months. The ConAgra and Menu Foods incidents are as far apart as peanut butter and pet food — which...
As its shipments of fresh produce to the U.S. increase, so do concerns about contamination Business Week by Pallavi Gogoi As the U.S. and China hold high-level economic talks, there’s no shortage of important topics. At the top of the list for Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and China Vice-Premier...
News Channel 5 (link no longer available) Nashville, TN NASHVILLE, Tenn.- There is growing concern about a powerful antibiotic the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve for use in treating sick cattle. More than a dozen groups oppose the move, saying the drug’s use poses a serious...
DALLAS: Socially concerned investors, who filed a shareholder proposal with Dean Foods, today again questioned the company’s management at its Annual Meeting of Stockholders in Dallas as its marquee organic brand faces increasing competitive pressures and a consumer backlash over its reliance on factory-farm milk production. Investors believe the...
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